its i mean you can tell its bland and incompetent clone of call of duty, but that you might not know it that it stars four identical beaded epic bacon black rifle coffee compony dudes, one of which voices his vehement distaste for hip hop music in the second spoken line after the prerendered opening.

it says is a "one handed game" wink wink, but the gameplay is too intense and the main enemy sprites are too crude for it to be practical to do anything with your free hand if you understand what im saying. it is pretty fun tho tbh

reading the reviews for this is insane what game did people play? i feel like if all you have to talk about is the "depiction of metal illness" or the gameplay you didn't get it.
extremely focused and smart exploration of abuse, it uses psychosis as its main thread but explores the way it intersects with religion, family, and prejudice in a really great way.

on the narrative front Alan Wake 2 takes all the ambitions of the first that weren't quite realized surpasses them. that said, in the case of gameplay, while they pace the escalation much better and the inventory adds much needed depth, the moment to moment combat loops just don't work as well as the originals near perfect system.
i like the the investigation mechanics even if they are pretty linear, i hope remedy do more with them in the future.

kevin spacey is so smooth in this like he just came out out the Hollywood clone vats

if 30 Flights of Loving really wanted you to know how cool it is for liking Videodrome and Eraserhead

i admire its focus even if it hasn't aged as well as a lot of its peers

its really satisfying to learn the movement and geography but it gets really annoying and punishing in the endgame zones. definitely deserves its reputation even if its aged pretty hard.

"oh thats where that game got that idea"
i got the leave ending which honestly unnerved me more than a lot of the game

Well, I live with snakes and lizards
And other things that go bump in the night

they basically perfected tank control survival horror with the 2002 remake. it falls of a little once the zoo animals start showing up but the spencer mansion is obviously one of the best designed levels ever made. the stuff with the trevor family specifically is the best gothic horror in the franchise.

the hd version had some inconsistency with the resolutions and there were a couple things that felt weird (like jills jiggle physics) but generally perfect aesthetically.

i like what they are doing but its so short that is still feels like a dlc for 2 remake

extremely disappointing both for jedi games and respawn games

sister friede is a 9 but thats what everyone says, but a lot of the rest is underrated, not all of it tho, the optional boss blows

by bosses only its a 9 but the levels are like a 6 or a 7, gael is one of the greatest artistic works of the decade

despite its anti-colonial ambitions its still against killing us soldiers
at war with its own systems, and not in the way it means to be, overall not quite as deep as it wants, but after i finished it took me like five minutes to catch my breath.
good soundtrack